Statistical Mechanics of Dynamics and Structure in Liquids

加州大学伯克利分校的大卫·钱德勒（David Chandler）得到了理论与计算化学计划的支持，研究玻璃动力学和老化、疏水效应和自组装。这项工作是研究过冷液体的粗粒度模型的行为，特别关注非线性现象，如对驱动力的亚线性响应，棘轮和放大器效应以及基于玻璃弹性的开关。钱德勒继续研究疏水理论，提出了一种观点，认为疏水组装的驱动力是由扩展的疏水力形成的软界面模式形成的。后一个项目包括对病毒衣壳系统的自组装的研究，这是互补的典型例证。这项工作预计将对对液体和生物分子系统的普遍理解产生广泛影响，并对未来科学家的培训产生积极影响。

David Chandler of the University of California, Berkeley isupported by the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program for research on glassy dynamics and aging, the hydrophobic effect and self-assembly. The work is examining the behavior of coarse-grained models of super-cooled liquids with particular attention being paid to non-linear phenomena such as sublinear responses to driving forces, ratchet and amplifier effects and switches based upon the elasticity of glasses. Chandler continues his work on the theory of hydrophobicity which introduced a view of the driving force for hydrophobic assembly as being due to the formation of soft interfacial modes nucleated by extended hydrophobic forces. The latter project includes a study of the self-assembly of virus capsid systems, clusters which are prototypical illustrations of complementarity. The work is expected to have a broad impact on the general understanding of liquids and of biomolecular systems and to positively impact the training of future scientists.